Tech Unc. Black Male in Higher-Ed. Classic Rap, Linux, Free Software and occasional delusional crypto fan. Insightful and ultra humble or something
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Many of you saying the GPL “is anti-open source” need to wake up and take a history lesson: the GPL is maybe the greatest gift Stallman could have bestowed onto a free (as in freedom) society. Copy left prevents entities from taking open and free code, close sourcing it, and building proprietary software ontop of it. Copy left compels those entities selling/distributing products with GPL bits to also open source their code under GPL.
Linux has been GPL for 30+ years and has led to an explosion in open and free distros, innovations, and cross-industry collaboration. MIT and Apache are free but have near zero restrictions: one could argue that code that is simple available to lift and shift is not free, it is pillageable.
I commend the Asahi maintainers for making the difficult re-licensing decision which aligns their project much closer to how Linux distros are typically licensed. I commend them for standing up to bad actors laundering their code through LLMs, and obfuscating their work.
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The jobs are “Speaker of the House” and “Senate Majority Leader”
Not
“Speaker for the causes my little friends and I were told to whine about on the internet today”
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Hold on, folks. Can we talk about Hakeem Jeffries for a second?
He spent four years in the minority with no gavel, no subpoenas, and no committee chairs. And he still got results. He forced the vote on the Epstein files, and it passed 427 to 1.
He forced a House vote on extending the ACA tax credits, with three Republicans signing his petition. He forced a vote to restore union rights for a million federal workers.
He helped get Ukraine aid through. And he ran months of war games to prepare for every dirty trick this regime might pull on the midterms.
Three days before the election he told a rally: “One of the first things we’re going to do is run Pete Hegseth out of town.” That doesn’t sound like a guy without a spine to me.
He’s said “accountability” in dozens of speeches. The subpoena power arrives January 3rd, and you’d better believe he plans to use it.
I get it. We’re all hungry for hearings. So am I. But responsible leaders don’t promise revenge on camera, they build cases that hold up.
Speaker Emerita Pelosi made the job look easy, because she was insanely good at it, and she is precisely who has showed him the ropes.
That job seems hard as hell to me, and that's probably why whenever "popular" Democrats are asked if they want it, they're like "Nope. And I will be voting for Leader Jeffries."
An overwhelming majority of Democratic members of Congress plan to back him as Speaker, but he hasn’t even been sworn in as Speaker yet. Let him do the job before we cut him off at the knees.
Republicans would LOVE it if Democrats did their dirty work for them, knocking out our FIRST Black Speaker of the House in history.
JFC, even the horrible, lying jackass Mike Johnson got TWO FULL YEARS, and he accomplished NOTHING for the American people.
Affordability. Accountability. That’s what the MAJORITY of voters asked for, and he’s laser-focused on both.
Give the man a chance.🙏💪
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DSA protest is a bunch of majority White people with signs predominantly about other topics and a few jumped in with handwritten signs on Schumer and Speaker Jeffries.
NYC freaks walking around in dirty dingy draws don’t get to decide for the over 60 millions people that came out to vote and the uprising of millions of Black voters who took the South back.
NOW: "No Schumer No Jeffries" Signs as Thousands Join March for Our Democracy in Times Square After Midterm Elections
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Las personas de izquierda con influencia estamos sufriendo shadow-banning en 'X' del tecnoligarca Elon Musk.
Tratan de silenciarnos.
Copia este mensaje y comparte contra el algoritmo de la propia red social.
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I'M JUST ASKING YOU TO PAY ATTENTION.
Stop listening to the bots.
Stop listening to the influencers.
Stop listening to the pundits.
Stop listening to anger & fear.
Start reading things that matter.
Read articles with verified sources.
Read books.
Read the law, read the record.
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Can’t help but notice, when I check who’s attacking our Democratic leaders…
it’s people who think the job is about public popularity (it’s not),
people who are literally taking money from a GoFundMe,
a rich guy (Ruffalo) who has no clue what the job entails, and
DSA ppl who want someone to blame b/c their candidates didn’t do as well as moderate Democrats.
🚨 And one more rather large bunch:: low-follower Republicans!
If you’re attacking our leaders after their huge wins, please go piss up a rope.
Bro is like a junior manager at mcdonalds
"65% OF THE PEOPLE WANT FRIES SOMEONE SHOULD DELIVER"
I mean, like tweeting the ish from his phone. Not saying it out loud or talking to the employees. Just tweeting it.
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“DEMOCRATS MUST DELIVER”????
EXCUSE ME, @BernieSanders. WHAT PLANET ARE YOU ON? SINCE WHEN DO YOU ISSUE ORDERS TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?
You’re an INDEPENDENT senator. You caucus with Democrats. That gives you a voice in the conversation but does NOT give you ownership of the party or the authority to dictate its platform.
Also, your selective presentation of polling needs a very thorough examination.
You cite 66% support for Medicare for All. You conveniently omitted that KFF found support collapses to roughly one-third when respondents hear about potential tax increases and to approximately one-quarter when warned about treatment delays.
Your 63% data center statistic was a survey that concerned a temporary construction pause of at least ONE YEAR.
Where are the original questions, sample sizes, margins of error and competing arguments for ALL SEVEN statistics?
Where is the evidence that Americans who favor lower credit card interest rates also endorse your entire political agenda?
There isn’t a single poll here establishing that conclusion.
Supporting affordable healthcare doesn’t automatically make someone a socialist. Supporting higher wages doesn’t mean joining the DSA.
Opposing billionaire influence doesn’t require ideological obedience. Supporting campaign finance reform doesn’t mean surrendering the Democratic Party’s identity to its most ideological factions.
You cannot take seven separate polling results, strip away the qualifications, package them as one political platform and announce that Democrats MUST comply.
That’s not how representative democracy works. The Democratic Party is a broad coalition of Americans with different economic philosophies, priorities, and approaches to governing.
Moderates are not obstacles to be eliminated, independents are not ideological recruits, and disagreement is not disloyalty.
If socialists and DSA activists want Democrats to embrace their preferred policies, they can make their case, answer difficult questions, negotiate and persuade. They cannot simply declare dissent unacceptable.
Here’s the question your post completely ignores.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TWO POPULAR PROPOSALS CONFLICT, WHEN THE COSTS EXCEED THE AVAILABLE REVENUE, OR WHEN VOTERS SUPPORT THE GOAL BUT REJECT YOUR PARTICULAR SOLUTION?
Governing requires answering those questions. A collection of favorable percentages is not a legislative blueprint. A slogan is not an economic analysis. Remember that an independent senator’s demands are not binding instructions to an entire political party.
BERNIE, YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OPINIONS, BUT YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO EVERY DEMOCRAT’S AGREEMENT. THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS A COALITION. STOP CONFUSING IT FOR A COMPLIANCE DEPARTMENT.
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“We The People don’t want Hakeem Jeffries as the next House Speaker!”
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DSA didn't fight for Black voters when the VRA was gutted
DSA didn't fight for women when Roe v. Wade was overturned
DSA shrugged its shoulders on Oct 7th
But they are ready for war as soon as the Democrats win historic victories in the House and Senate
Sounds about white
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Arguing Thanos wasnt that bad and that the avengers are the real bad guys because they cant prevent an interstellar titan with supernatural power and control over space time is actually a perfect synopsis of the average person's misunderstanding of politics and world around them
Trevor Noah argues the Avengers are actually the bad guys
“The Avengers is the perfect allegory for the Democrats in America.”
“They like to fight against the bad guy, but they do not like to do anything to prevent bad guyness from happening again.”
“They’re not willing to sacrifice anything to prevent it from happening.”
“At least Thanos had a vision… He was willing to sacrifice something.”
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From Biden to Jeffries to Schumer YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THIS COORDINATED EFFORT TO MAKE DEMS LOSE FAITH IN THEIR OWN LEADERSHIP even as Republicans are NEVER HELD TO ACCOUNT for their lack of it.
I'm starting to think people are just made stupid by the fact that Hakeem Jeffries has like a really cool name, so it doesn't seem like he should have such a boring job? Like maybe he shoulda gone with Harry or something
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*staring at button that makes situations slightly to moderately better for most people* I am not going to press this button because there SHOULD be a button that makes things a lot better for all people. I have no plans to implement said button, someone else will surely